by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1973)
Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s legendary exposé of the vast Soviet network of forced labor camps and secret police terror that shook the world and helped dismantle Soviet legitimacy.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The sweeping, intimate chronicle of the Romanov dynasty that ruled Russia for three centuries, creating the largest land empire on earth through a succession of visionary conquerors, tyrants, and romantic eccentrics.
John Lewis Gaddis
Pulitzer Prize-winner John Lewis Gaddis delivers the definitive one-volume narrative of the forty-five-year ideological struggle that divided the world and brought humanity to the brink of nuclear extinction.
Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder’s monumental investigation of the territory between central Poland and western Russia where Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million civilians in twelve murderous years.
Jonathan D. Spence
Jonathan Spence’s masterwork charts four centuries of Chinese history from the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, documenting China’s turbulent transformation into a modern superpower.